Guro Market구로시장

About

In 1962, as large housing developments and the Guro Industrial Complex grew up along the Gyeongin National Road in Guro-gu, the area needed a market, and this one was built as a planned market. Guro Market was the first traditional market to be established in Guro-gu, and in its early days it was home to fabric, hanbok and clothing shops, as well as rice cake shops, sesame oil shops and a food alley. There are still many hanbok shops here today, because the women who worked at the Guro Industrial Complex would wear hanbok on their way home for the holidays, buy hanbok as gifts for their families, and shop here for their wedding goods. Its fabric shops thrived so much that people used to say "Namdaemun Market, Dongdaemun Market, then Guro Market." With fabric and hanbok shops lining both sides of the market, it was reportedly called the "Silk Road." In 2015, a modernization project began to upgrade the aging facilities, adding a weather-proof arcade and new signage. Because many foreign residents, including Chinese people, live in the neighborhood, many shops at Guro Market sell ingredients you won't find at other traditional markets. It also offers a wide range of goods at low prices, from traditional Korean foods and side dishes to farm produce, seafood, clothing and sundries. There's plenty to eat as well, with tasty, affordable dishes such as millstone-ground handmade tofu, rich red bean porridge, tteokbokki, kalguksu served with barley rice, and the 40-year-old Eommason Guksu Gongjang noodle shop.